The typographic universe
Subtitle: letterforms found in nature, the built world and human imagination
By: Steven Heller & Gail Anderson
Contributors: Anderson, Gail, 1962- author
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9780500241455
Subjects: Graphic design (Typography); Lettering in art
Description: A celebration of the world of letters found or created in unexpected places: natural, artificial, and urban alike. Even non-graphic designers know that type is everywhere: fonts and typefaces fill everything we consume or inhabit. They communicate, inform, sell, explain ... and yet finding serendipitous letterforms in the least likely locations can also excite and inspire. Once experienced, it is impossible not to see letters in anything from forests to housing projects, from leaves to brickwork. The eye becomes accustomed to seeing a world built of letters. Unlike most books on typography that present the "best"; and most refined examples, the object here is to reveal the "lost" or "unseen" typographies in nature and our cities. From machine-made and sculptural forms to flora and fauna, from the fading ghost types on buildings from a pre-digital age to the subterranean forms found beneath our urban centers, from crowd-sourced creations to the popular vernacular, there is a universe of letterforms all around us.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 348-349) and index.
Table of contents: title: Objectified type; title: Bodily type; title: Edible type; title: Industrial type; title: Outdoor type; title: Sculptural type; title: Elemental type; title: Floral type; title: Animal type; title: Ghost type.